title: Effect of speckle on APSCI method and Mueller Imaging.
abstract: The principle of the polarimetric imaging method called APSCI (Adapted Polarization State Contrast Imaging) is to maximize the polarimetric contrast between an object and its background using specific polarization states of illumination and detection. We perform here a comparative study of the APSCI method with existing Classical Mueller Imaging(CMI) associated with polar decomposition in the presence of fully and partially polarized circular Gaussian speckle. The results show a noticeable increase of the Bhattacharyya distance used as our contrast parameter for the APSCI method, especially when the object and background exhibit several polarimetric properties simultaneously.
authors.affiliation: ONERA, Thoretical and Applied Optics Department, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Debajyoti
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Upadhyay
authors.forename: Micheal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richert
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lacot
authors.forename: Antonello
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Martino
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Orlik
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008859:Microscopy, Polarization / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity